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75Electric as Elektra, Jennifer Garner does a high-powered, blade-thrusting star turn as Marvel Comics' ninja-inspired superheroine, bringing such unbridled energy and sexuality to her performance, one barely notices the movie itself.
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60Elektra isn't half-bad--only maybe two-fifths.
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50An adequate but none-too-thrilling star vehicle for Jennifer Garner in flame-colored bustier and low-riding pants.
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50"Kill Bill" without irony, and without Quentin Tarantino's flair for cool dialogue and chop-socky action (and without Uma Thurman, for that matter), Elektra is a pretty-looking, pretty dull adaptation of the Marvel Comic about a dishy, deadly assassin.
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50Her (Garner) grace and mystical abilities make for a lonely burden, and we are supposed to feel her pain. Instead, we feel our own for having to sit through this silly movie.
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50One of the least effective comic book-to-movie stories to have come along in the past few years. Without a viable screenplay, there's nowhere for the character to go, and no way to avoid making her look silly.
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For the better part of this movie, Elektra appears to be a sensible, stylish young superhero.
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50Watching this is like sitting by a pinsetter at a bowling alley. That's too bad, because the picture had potential.
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50The role needs a steely, inhuman reserve, and Garner's innate likeability works against her.
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The pedestrian Elektra offers no surprises, and whether or not you'll appreciate its modest charms depends entirely on whether you too have been anticipating Garner's new outfit.
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50The fights are mostly cool, save the final one with too many quick cuts, and the morphing graffiti and tattoos are nifty. If only the rest of it weren't so stupid.
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50Elektra proves no more than fitfully satisfying, a character-driven superhero yarn whose flurry of last-minute rewriting shows in a disjointed plot.
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50This doesn't exactly set the world on fire, but I was charmed by its old-fashioned storytelling, which is refreshingly free of archness, self-consciousness, or "Kill Bill"-style wisecracks.
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42A poorly written collection of comic-book movie cliches that offers nothing new to the genre, generates very little in the way of action thrills and plays like a self-important, humorless rip-off of "Kill Bill."
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40Pinup appeal alone does not a compelling movie make.
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40Enormous plot holes and a script that's fatally light on character mean there's few selling points beyond Jennifer Garner's corset...
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40What's missing -- apart, of course, from a plot -- is any character development.
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40No fun at all.
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40No question, the film's best special effect is Ms. Garner, especially when she's in costume.
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38Plays like a collision between leftover bits and pieces of Marvel superhero stories. It can't decide what tone to strike.
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33Just as all regular models can't be supermodels, so all action chicks can't be superheroines. Elektra Natchios turns out to be walled off rather than mysteriously alluring; blank rather than deep.
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33We end up with a piece of B-grade junk in which Elektra exchanges "banter" with the unexceptional Prout between fight scenes so badly shot that even Garner looks like a stunt double.
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30Along comes Elektra to effectively lower the bar for Marvel Comics page-to-screen transitions.
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30When a movie makes you wish you were watching Halle Berry in "Catwoman," something is most definitely wrong.
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30Long on cutlery and décor (including, of course, the marvelously decorative Ms. Garner, of the TV series "Alias") and woefully short on narrative.
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30What it suffers from most is the sense of offhand storytelling that lies halfway between creative laziness and cost-cutting sloppiness.
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25Breathlessly boring.
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25Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.
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25Part of the problem is that Garner, so irresistible on television and in last year's "13 Going on 30," just can't pull off the cold-hearted killer routine.
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25Deadly dull.
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25Another inert, soul-dead action drama that turns actors into zombies...It's garbage.
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25As she sashays, mirthlessly, from one thankless confrontation to the next, it's unclear why anyone would find Garner any more deserving of stardom than certain mannequins.
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25Lacks thrills, narrative, emotion, believability, character development--and frankly--watchability.
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20Elektra isn't just poorly executed, it's emotionally false and makes absolutely no narrative sense.
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20Not stupid enough to qualify as good, dumb fun.
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